The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-23
A PLATE CONCERN CAUGHT In
VERY UGLY TRAP.
The A. N. Kellogg Company Serves
4 Bogus Talmage Sermon
to Thei- Customers.

Gus one tnat l06 dcfUu repre-
sentative concluded TO get at the
"iusids facs," # thee were any,
and with that in view yesterday
called on George F. Seey, the resident
manager Of the American Press Asso-
citation, a company extensively en-
gagged in ths manufacture OF reading
matter plates in this city and else
where. In conversation on the sub
ject yesterday Mr.. s, ely stated that he
cou'd not imagine win nee the copy
cams which the Kellogg Company
bad set up for the alleged sermon. He
hss fincs been r4,king his brain N
that point, and, whlle all uncertain,
yet has suspicion. When ssked for
the fsctf, Mr.. Seely said: "For ev-
eral years the sermons OF the famous
Brooklyn preacher have bad wide cir
culaton in the pTess, and the pressure
from publishers was 6Ua ly 81 rOug
that an ar angement was enter-d into
for the suppl, ing OF advance sheets Of
his u;teIauces to newspAp' rs, gar eialy
through gentleman who Was p9Is m
ally obi gated 10 zee to it that no pre- =
mature TT improper use was made OF
the manu- cript. Some months 81 CO
the Amercsn p ess Association made
arrangement whereby 1t purchased the
exclusive right to furnish DR.. Tai
IMAGES sermons in plato form, ship.
ping the same to pub isbers in time
each week t. give each customer all
the advantages OF tslegrsphic trans
mission. Some time sine, the A. N.
Kellogg Newspaper Company, serving
stereotype plates and "pstent insides"
from Offices in Chicago, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, st Louis and K intas
~, began 10 furnish newspapers
wi h the ralmage sermons, evidently
in advance. The seTm )ns wers also
served in advance by the National
Press COMPANY, a stereotype plate
house in New York, owned by the A.
N. Kellogg Company. The Kellogg
Com pany were warned more than
once by the officers of the American
Press Association that they were
using mater dishonesty OBJ
tanned, and which they had no
right to use, but they persisted in
supplying to the press tn purloined
matter. Complaints were received
from customers who had purchase d
the right to use the plates copt dining
the sermons as furnished BY the
American Press Association that rival
papers in the same towns were pro-
ducing the eminent divine's deliver
ances stimuli aneous'y with tn, m elves
and radical measures were fually de
termined upon. Presuming that the
Kellogg concern in some way was OBJ
tainiHg possession OF one of the proc
sheets which it was customary to eanC
out with each set OF sermon plates
bogus proofs Of sermon pun
porting to have been delivered bJ
DR. Tslmsge- last Sunday, vera sen
with the shipments of last week il
each case, al d how we'll the schem,
worked the 8 qusl shows. The KEEL
lcgg Company lose equal to the emer
gency they reproduced the spuIiou
article word for word and sent it on
as a Talmage sermon. They ever
headed it Frauds D,t-cted," and, OF
the whole, the transaction tbrougl
was an exceedingly edifJirg one t.
the student OF strict honesty in bust
ness dealings. The sermon really de
l,vered by DR.. TAlmsge was Oh ,rac
teristic effort from the txt
eye were bought with price," Will,
the bogus" sermon, printed in grea
number of newsp pers served by III,
A. N. Kellogg @ mpaoy, hsd the ap
propriate TILE, Frauds Dstec ed,
8nd was from the fitting text. "Be sur
your sin will find you out" Its hard
~ necessary to remark that the lstt 9
srrmon was not thought with price.
The preacher of the bogus" sermon
eeemed to be aiming paI ticularly a
the great and awful sin of the A. N
Kellogg Company in stea ing the sci
mons Of DR.. Talmsga. Hs says:
"Be cure your ain will fiud on out.
What a so emu saying How !
Lrieves you'll The very sound # th
words strikes terror INFO US. The sin
ner skulks and fees, aud does all tina
no can to hide himself; but sin Is al
avenger or detective on his track. Tn
detective follows with slow aud noise
less steps, but he is sure. He will no
be bribed he cannot be outwitted b.
the criminal. He may ssiz p, the trem
bling sinner any day, and seize him b,
shall some day. Every sinner has a
last to say, like the frightened Abab
"Hast thou found me, o mine enemy |
AgIin:
Every page of history proves, thu
with the sinner it is like for like
and measure for meas ure;" tn
slayer is slain, the chestsr is cheated
the doer done, the bitter bit, the snare
shared in his own net.
Aud again:
The first sin-the sin OF Adam an,
Eve-how soon it was found out
Cain, was he not found our TIL
very earth cried out against him, an
! the mark on his forehead advertise,
: his crime to all the world. The sir
ners in Noahs day were found ont b
the food; on Let's day, by the destruC
} ton OF Sodom. Joseph's brethren il
= Egypt, Achan aud his BAbyopish gal
mems, Gehausi and his gold, Jonah i
the storm, Haman hanged on his owl
l gallows, Manesseh and his blood sheC
ding, Judas and his pieces OF silver
. Ananias and Sapphira-all, all foun
3 out
, There are three worlds in which Of
finds us out. The world around, tn
7 world within, the world beyond.
. "The world within" posslb refer
' to the inside, or rather "pstent ms de
world.
The headquarters Of the Amer'cs
Press Association are in New Yor
City, and Mel, o. ]. Smith, the pres
, dent and general manager, has write
to Mr.. Seely, since the denouement, 6
follows:
> Two or three weeks ago l sske
!. Mr.. Pratt, the manager Of the A. \
kellogg Company, to put stop to th
= practice by that estsb ishment Of stea
: ing from as the advance sheets of d
|, Talmage's sermons l assumed thu
: the thing ives done without Nj
Pratt's Knowledge or approval. BIZ
he failed 10 give any assurance thi
. the game his company had been PLAY
= irg would cease, and then told hii
!, il il should be con inued his compan
. wou d be placed in a very unpleasar
and perhaps moTtiIyiug 81 uaion.